From: VatorNews.tv on Sat, Jun 13 2009 11:04 AM

What am I Missy, Episode 23 Have you ever wondered what Wikipedia or a portion of Wikipedia would look like printed? For some reason Rob Matthews printed out 5,000 pages of Wikipedia’s featured articles. Why did he do it? According to Matthews: "Reproducing Wikipedia in a dysfunctional physica...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Jun 12 2009 10:36 AM

Bijan Mirashi on the steps he took to get angels and investors all aligned This is the first segment of a 10-segment show, called fundRazor with John Bautista. In the show, John interviews entrepreneurs and explores their fundraising activities and what it took for these hardworking dreamers t...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Jun 11 2009 11:49 AM

Randy Adams on how startups are like small children that need nurturing In this segment of Lessons Learned, Bambi Francisco interviewed Randy Adams, CEO of SearchMe, a site that turns browsing the Web into the same experience as flipping through a magazine. Adams, who raised $43 million in fun...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Jun 10 2009 9:00 AM

Founders Fund managing partner Sean Parker at the TechFellow Awards "We’d hope to deploy somewhere between $6 million and $7 million in the eventual companies that come out of the process," said Sean Parker, Managing Partner, at Founders Fund, at the recent TechFellow Awards held at the Califo...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Jun 10 2009 9:00 AM

... and Palm engineer Michael Abbott on how they plan to win their TechFellow award money Nearly two dozen individuals, many of whom had experience starting companies, were awarded a TechFellow Award last week. The Founders Fund is behind the program, which gives $25,000 to selected individual...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Jun 09 2009 12:23 PM

The administration is turning Washington DC into a fountain of cash. VCs are stoked, sort of. Since the administration’s announcement in March that $2.4B would go to hybrid plug-in car initiatives, green VCs have been trekking to DC with their hats in their hands. No doubt, the turn of...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Jun 09 2009 10:15 AM

What am I Missy, Episode 22 Anheuser-Busch has a Twitter account for Michelob to generate some buzz. Now beer lovers can chat with other fellow beer lovers. But if you have a Twitter account, aren’t you supposed to be succinct? Last time I checked, the more beer someone consumes, the less succ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Mon, Jun 08 2009 11:35 AM

Founder and CEO Shervin Pishevar gives a demo of the 3D air combat game This is not your father’s war games. In fact, it's not your child's typical air battle game on a console. Social Gaming Network on Monday released FAST, a multi-player air combat game, on the iPhone for $10. The ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Sun, Jun 07 2009 11:33 PM

Web video distribution and analytics company sets new standard for online viewing metrics Leading web video distribution and analytics company TubeMogul recently launched TubeMogul 2.0 which "democratizes video metrics" by providing free video tracking capabilities that were once exclusive only...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, Jun 05 2009 10:49 AM

Visual search engine CEO Chris Boone on taking visual search to medical and e-commerce industries In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed Chris Boone, CEO of Visuvi, an image-based search engine with patent pending technology in “content-based-image recognition.”BF: Today, you’re launchin...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Jun 04 2009 10:08 AM

CEO Randy Adams on SearchMe’s distribution plans and AdView adoption This is the second segment of a two-part interview with Bambi Francisco and Randy Adams, CEO of SearchMe, a site that turns browsing the Web into the same experience as flipping through a magazine. In the first part of this i...

From: VatorNews.tv on Thu, Jun 04 2009 2:01 AM

CEO Randy Adams on SearchMe’s distribution plans and AdView adoption This is the second segment of a two-part interview with Bambi Francisco and Randy Adams, CEO of SearchMe, a site that turns browsing the Web into the same experience as flipping through a magazine. In the first part of this i...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, Jun 03 2009 11:48 AM

Heyzap just received seed funding from Union Square Ventures. Let’s take a look at what it's up to. Jude Gomila and Immad Akhund, Co-founders of Heyzap, decided it would be best to store their recent round of seed funding, safely away in the office refrigerator.Huh?  You may be s...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, Jun 02 2009 9:34 AM

Pandora CEO Joe Kennedy: It’s uncommon that the founding idea is right on the money In this segment of Lessons Learned, Bambi Francisco interviewed Joe Kennedy, CEO of Pandora, a personalized radio station that creates music stations based on personal preferences. BF: You started Pandora when ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Sat, May 30 2009 10:19 AM

What am I Missy, Episode 21 Is Twitter going Hollywood? Production companies Reveille and Brillstein Entertainment have inked a deal with the micro-blog site to create an unscripted television show that will focus on celebrities and ordinary people who use Twitter. No word on what the show is ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Fri, May 29 2009 11:01 AM

Bart Decrem, CEO of Tapulous shares some entrepreneurial advice at PACT 2009 Today, Tap Tap Revenge is the most downloaded and installed iPhone application with 32% iPhone penetration, 10 million installs, and all users combined, the game has been played 100 million times. Bart Decrem, CEO and...

From: VatorNews.tv on Wed, May 27 2009 11:41 AM

CEO Randy Adams on expanding visual search and why SearchMe works well for product searches In this segment, Bambi Francisco interviewed Randy Adams, CEO and founder of SearchMe, a site that turns browsing the Web into the same experience as flipping through a magazine. In the first part of th...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, May 26 2009 7:30 PM

Yoav Leitersdorf of YL Ventures says keep expectations low, and accept failure European entrepreneurs have a tough time accepting failure. That’s what I learned while attending the Innovate!Europe conference, held in Zaragoza, Spain recently. One dominant and recurring theme was the idea that ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, May 26 2009 7:30 PM

Why CEOs and founders need to be salesmen and learn how to sell, sell, sell In this segment of Lessons Learned, Bambi Francisco sit downs with serial entrepreneur David Sifry, founder and CEO of Offbeat Guides. Sifry also founded four other startups, including Technorati, which he was at the ...

From: VatorNews.tv on Tue, May 26 2009 7:30 PM

...and Conway’s thoughts on mobile investing, Apple, Digg, AdMob, IPOs and M&A Mobile advertising is as one Advertising Age writer put it: This great white whale that is forever on the horizon but perpetually out of reach. But thanks to the proliferation of the iPhone, and other smart phones, ...